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To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
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Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
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The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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